Category: South Asia
Pakistan’s paper shortage halts text book printing as global paper crisis bites
by Mark Williams | Jun 26, 2022 | Pakistan, South Asia | 0 |
For countries like Pakistan, that have for so long eschewed any meaningful shift to digital...
Read MoreIs the “digital devil” here to stay?
by Mark Williams | Mar 25, 2022 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, India, South Asia | 0 |
India has 755 million people online, second only to China. That’s more than double the USA’s...
Read MoreBooks worth over $6.1 million sold at Bangladesh Book Fair as the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela finally got a website
by Mark Williams | Mar 21, 2022 | Bangladesh, Book Fairs, Global Publishing, South Asia | 0 |
It seems to have taken a pandemic to finally get the message across, but we’re off to a good...
Read MoreIndia – Chennai Book Fair clocks 1.5 million visitors, sells books worth $1.6 million. Kolkata on target for 2 million visitors
by Mark Williams | Mar 10, 2022 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, India, South Asia | 0 |
Kolkata has for the longest time resisted digital options, as TNPS regulars will know, but this...
Read MoreBangladesh – Children’s books on traditional games launched by Unesco, The Asia Foundation, in print and digital formats
by Mark Williams | Jan 19, 2022 | Bangladesh, Book Fairs, Global Publishing, South Asia | 0 |
In a move somewhat at odds with standard publishing practice in Bangladesh, e-book versions of the...
Read MoreIndia’s Kolkata IBF postponed. Publishers “face starvation” with no digital safety net in a country of 755 million internet users
by Mark Williams | Jan 18, 2022 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, India, South Asia | 0 |
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
Read MoreIndia: “a very good year”, “extraordinary”, “best ever” – or “publishers facing starvation”. A tale of two publishing strategies (spoiler, one didn’t involve digital)
by Mark Williams | Jan 14, 2022 | Book Fairs, India, South Asia | 0 |
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
Read More400,000 expected at Pakistan’s Karachi International Book Fair amid a shift to an international focus, but digital embrace not in evidence
by Mark Williams | Jan 2, 2022 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Pakistan, South Asia | 0 |
In Pakistan, where internet penetration is still at just 44.7%, it’s easy to lose sight of the...
Read MoreIndia’s Jaipur Literature Festival will be hybrid in 2022, and free online access globally
by Mark Williams | Nov 29, 2021 | Global Publishing, India, South Asia | 0 |
The world’s biggest literature festival will be a hybrid event with in-person action for those...
Read MoreBig Bad Wolf Sri Lanka is online again, this time teamed with Shopify
by Mark Williams | Nov 3, 2021 | Big Bad Wolf sale, South Asia, Sri Lanka | 0 |
At its height Big Bad Wolf was taking books – literally by the million – to multiple...
Read MoreWith 25 million audiobook consumers, India takes third place behind USA and China. Might Storytel be eyeing an acquisition?
by Mark Williams | Sep 8, 2021 | Audiobooks, Global Publishing, India, South Asia | 0 |
Audible and Storytel are the biggest foreign players in the Indian audiobook market, but keep an...
Read MoreIndia’s online Delhi Book Fair expects more than 300,000 visitors this September
by Mark Williams | Aug 15, 2021 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, India, South Asia | 0 |
While the Delhi events organisers understand the potential of digital, the Kolkata organisers seem...
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